TEACHING YEARLINGS. 201 



view to be master ; and if he should become head- 

 strong in this way, no matter how good he may 

 be as to stoutness or speed, he is most likely 

 spoiled for ever as a race horse, or rather there is 

 no dependence to be placed on him when running. 

 A colt being unruly from being too hearty, and 

 a colt being unruly from vice, are two very dif- 

 ferent things ; the former, with proper manage- 

 ment, is soon got the better of, and perhaps 

 without changing the boy, as we shall presently 

 shew; but the latter requires the immediate 

 attention of the groom, who will soon find he 

 must change the small light boy for one that is 

 bigger, stronger, and more determined on horse- 

 back, and that knows well how to forward a 

 young colt. 



The groom should have his eye as much as 

 possible on both boy and colt, so as to give direc- 

 tions to the former, in case he should at any time 

 be inclined to be too severe in correcting the colt 

 for a fault. I have in the first volume, in teaching 

 boys to ride, directed, that they are, under vari- 

 ous circumstances, to be kind to colts and horses, 

 with a view to preserve their tempers. Yet those 

 orders of kindness are not to be carried to the 



